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August 2017 AAS Member News & Notes

A final reminder that panel and paper proposals for our 2018 conference in Washington, D.C. are due by 5:00pm Eastern Time on Tuesday, August 8. There are no exceptions to this deadline, so play it safe and don’t wait until the last minute to submit your proposal!

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Congratulations to University of Chicago professor and AAS Member Kenneth Pomeranz, historian of China, who has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy.

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At its July meeting in Chiang Mai, Thailand, the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) awarded its biennial book prizes. We are pleased to see many AAS Members recognized by ICAS for their work and offer the following scholars our congratulations:

Lik Hang Tsui (University of Oxford), “Writing Letters in Song China (960-1279): A Study of Its Political, Social, and Cultural Uses” (Most Accessible and Captivating Work for the Non-Specialist Reader Accolade, Dissertations in the Humanities)

Richard von Glahn (University of California, Los Angeles), The Economic History of China: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century, Cambridge University Press. (Teaching Tool Accolade, Social Sciences)

We are currently accepting applications for our second “Emerging Fields in the Study of Asia” workshop, which will be held in Ann Arbor, Michigan in August 2018 and focus on the theme of “Asia and the Anthropocene.” The application submission deadline is October 2.

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Applications to the fall round of funding in our First Book Subvention program are due by September 1. Eligibility details and instructions for application are available here.

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Photographs from June’s AAS-in-ASIA conference are now available in our Flickr and Facebook photo albums.

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Several articles from the forthcoming August 2017 issue of the Journal of Asian Studies are now available to AAS Members at the CambridgeCore website. To access them, log in to your AAS member account at our website, then select “Access the Journal of Asian Studies” in the menu column at the right side of your account home screen; this will take you to CambridgeCore, where the articles can be found under the “FirstView” tab.

Deceased Asianists

Kavita Datla, historian of South Asia. Obituary via Mount Holyoke College, and a tribute to Dr. Datla written by Dr. Karuna Mantena has also been published at H-Asia.

We welcome submissions for the AAS Member News & Notes column, so please forward material for consideration to mcunningham@asian-studies.org. Please note that we do not publish book announcements in this space; new books by AAS Members will be announced on the association’s Twitter feed (@AASAsianStudies) and Facebook page (@AASAsianStudies).